Carbon Dioxide
Scientists go through an extensive process to retrieve ice cores from the Earth. From the ice cores, scientists are able to extract small bubbles that have formed within the layers and from those bubbles are able to detect the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the time period the core was from.
Recently, NEEM conducted a study ion which they extracted ice cores from the Eemeian Period. The ice core samples were found to be over 130,000 years old and the results were shockingly similar to the weather patterns taking effect today. The sea levels were rising and the temperatures were eight degrees higher than they were today. Scientists use the NEEM ice core samples as an indicator of our future weather patterns. Ice core samples have found that a surge in carbon dioxide levels occurred during the 1700's, during the Industrial Revolution.
Recently, NEEM conducted a study ion which they extracted ice cores from the Eemeian Period. The ice core samples were found to be over 130,000 years old and the results were shockingly similar to the weather patterns taking effect today. The sea levels were rising and the temperatures were eight degrees higher than they were today. Scientists use the NEEM ice core samples as an indicator of our future weather patterns. Ice core samples have found that a surge in carbon dioxide levels occurred during the 1700's, during the Industrial Revolution.
Due to human activity, the increased burning of fossil fuels, pollution, and lack of proper awareness, the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment is the highest it has been to date. If the numbers continue to be as they have been, The EPA predicts that sea levels will rise increasing ocean acidification which has its own detrimental effects. Not to mention, increased carbon dioxide guarantees higher temperatures to come. Higher temperatures will expand the sea water, raising sea levels, and again increasing acidity at the expense of coral reefs and marine life as we know it.
archive.epa.gov/epa/climate-change-science/future-climate-change.html
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archive.epa.gov/epa/climate-change-science/future-climate-change.html
https://icecores.org/